When Did Van Morrison- Blue Money Come Out

This song is probably my earliest memory of a Van Morrison song as a kid. I didn't find out about him though until my senior year in high school. Somehow I never heard Brown Eyed Girl until I was eighteen.

Blue Money was a top 40 hit but you don't hear it as much now. It's a song that is off of his albumHis Band and the Street Choir released in 1971. The song became Morrison's third best selling single of the 1970s, remaining on the charts for three months.

The album peaked at #32 in the Billboard Album Charts.

What Blue Money refers to in the song, and in most uses of the term, is money earned from racy photographs and images.

Blue Money

The photographer smiles
Take a break for a while
Take a rest, do your very best
Take five, honey
Five, honey

You search in your bag
Light up a fag
Think it's a drag, but you're so glad
To be alive honey
Alive honey

Said when this is all over
You'll be in clover
We'll go out and spend
All of your blue money
Blue money
Blue money

Do-do-you-do, n'-do-do-you-do
N' do-do-do-you do, n' do-do-do-you-do
N' do-do

Alright, (do-do) do-it

Do-do-you-do, n'-do-do-you-do
N' do-do-do-you do, n' do-do-do-you-do
N' do-do, do-do

Alright, (do-do) do-it

Well the cameraman smiles
Take a break for a while
Do your best, do your very best
Take five, honey
Take five

You search in your bag
Light up a fag
Say it's a drag, but you're so glad
To be alive honey
Alive honey

Said when this is all over
You'll be in clover
We'll go on out and spend
All of your blue money
Blue money
Blue money alright

Do-do-you-do, n'-do-do-you-do
N' do-do-do-you do, n' do-do-do-you-do
N' do-do

Alright, (do-do) do-it

Do-do-you-do, n'-do-do-you-do
N' do-do-do-you do, n' do-do-do-you-do
N' do-do, do-do
Alright, (do-do) do-it

One more time

Do-do-you-do, n'-do-do-you-do
N' do-do-do-you do, n' do-do-do-you-do
'N-do-do (do-do)

Hey (do-do)

Do-do-you-do, n'-do-do-you-do
N' do-do-do-you-do, n' do-do-do-you-do
'N-do-do

Alright, do-do

Say, when this is all over
We'll be in clover
We'll go out and spend all your

(Blue money) blue money

Blue money (blue money)

Ooh juice money, loose money

Juice money, loose money, honey

(Do-do-do, do-do-do-do)
What kind a money, honey?

(Do-do-do, do-do-do-do)
Juice money, loose money

Blue money (do-do-do, do-do-do-do)

Juice money

Loose money (do-do-do, do-do-do-do)

Blue money

Hey, alright

Juice money
Ow
Long as you wanna be